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Issue 5

Long Reads

Our favourite personal essays and travel stories that reflect on why we travel and how it changes us.

21 articles

I’m a queer, femme traveller. Here’s an honest telling of how my identity affects me abroad.

Because of travel, I think more deeply now about the things that we have to do to stay safe as queer people
May 21, 2024
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I lost myself in a relationship. Single and 34, I'm committing to travel, the open road, and myself.

Finally choosing my own adventure after years of concession.
January 22, 2024
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Lost in Naples: Lessons I've learned from putting my trust in strangers

At 19, Naples gave me a true life lesson.

November 20, 2023
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What I learned from Canadian summers at the lake

Livin' the lake life

July 12, 2023
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How I found comfort as an anxious traveller on a solo trip to Italy

You can appreciate your own company, and also feel lonely while travelling solo—both can exist simultaneously.
July 12, 2023
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Instagram vs Reality: A tale of travels gone awry on a trip to Peru

The non-Instagrammable side of travel exists. No, you’re not "doing it wrong".
January 16, 2023
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Am I too old to stay in hostels?

Is there an expiry date on being a backpacker?

November 02, 2021
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Getting naked in front of strangers in Iceland changed how I feel about my body

When in Flúðir, you do as the locals do

July 02, 2021
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Am I still a backpacker if I can’t carry a backpack?

A broken back shook up who she was and how she travelled. Or did it?

March 30, 2021
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Friends for a season: The bittersweetness of meeting people when you travel

It is better to have met and moved on than to never have met at all.

April 21, 2020
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The delicate art of coming home

Going is easy. Coming back is a different story.

April 20, 2020
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How backpacking totally changed how I feel about social media

If you didn’t Instagram it, did it even happen?

February 14, 2020
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Screw settling down, I’m going travelling instead

I don’t need the marriage-house-dog life. Not yet, not when there’s so much world to see.

February 11, 2020
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How I nearly lost my toes hiking El Camino

If thousands of travellers could do it, why couldn’t I?

July 19, 2019
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How a summer friendship unexpectedly led to my relocation to South America

I didn’t know it at the time, but meeting Mirella changed my life forever.

October 19, 2018
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After being ghosted in Colombia, my hostel mates saved my trip

Sometimes everything's perfect until it’s not.

July 23, 2018
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Travels with my dad

Hitting the road with your 63-year-old pops—what could go wrong?

June 13, 2018
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An ode to the moms who let us travel

It means so much when mom says go when she wants you to stay.

May 10, 2018
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Travel taught me how to be alone

I was the most alone I had ever been. And thus, according to my own definition, I was a loser.

March 26, 2018
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After a bad breakup, travel healed my broken heart

Sometimes the best thing you can do after a breakup involves going far, far away.

February 09, 2018
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